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In the mood for homemade mooncakes

WITH the Mid-Autumn Festival falling on Sunday, many may be tiring of the overly sweet mooncakes they receive as a gift. However, there are also savory mooncakes. Locals often wait in long lines to get a bite of piping hot minced meat mooncakes. But there’s no need to waste hours queuing when you can make these delicious and traditional Su-style mooncakes at home. Here Yoyo He invites Noah Liu who loves baking and earned a pastry chef certification in 2012 to show us how.

Ingredients •

(for 30 minced meat mooncakes, each weighs about 55g)

For lard dough:

All-purpose flour 400g

Powderedsugar 40g

Lard 120g

Water 140g

For lard cake:

All-purpose flour 270g

Lard 134g

For pork filings:

Pork (well-marbled) 500g

Preserved Sichuan pickle 60g

One teaspoon salt

Crushedginger

Onions

Cooking wine

Blackpepper

Sugar

One tablespoon darksoy sauce

Chickenessence

For dish decoration:

Egg wash One egg

Blacksesame 15g

Steps
1. Prepare the pork stuffing. Finely chop the pork, preserved pickle and ginger together. Then add in seasonings and blend the mixture together until completely pureed. Set the stuffing aside.
2. Next, sift 400g flour and 40g powdered 
sugar together, and then cut 120g lard into the flour until well mixed. Then add 140g water and knead the dough until smooth. Wrap  dough  with  membrane and  wait  30  minutes.
3. Make the lard cake by blending 270g all-purpose flour and 134g lard together until well mixed. Set it aside.
4. Divide both the lard dough and lard cake into 30 equal portions by rolling each into a long cylinder of about 15cm in diameter
and cutting into 30 equal pieces.
5. Use cling wrap to cover all 30 lard dough with its lard cakes and put a  damp  towel on top. Set aside and wait for 20 minutes.

6. Flatten one portion of the lard dough and roll it out with a rolling pin into a circle of 91cm in diameter. Roll one portion of the lard cake into a ball and put it in the center of the lard dough. Use the part of your hand between the thumb and the index finger to close up the wrapped ball tightly. Repeat the process for each portion.
7. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into an oval shape, around 8mm thick.
8. Start from one end of the long side of the oval and roll the dough into a cigar shape.
9. Then use the rolling pin to flatten the cigar shaped dough at both ends into a flat ribbon.
Once again roll the ribbon into a short cylinder.
10. Press the cylinder in the middle to flatten it and roll the dough into a round of about 4cm thick.
11. Divide the filling into equal portions. Put one portion of the filling (around 20g) into the round dough. Wrap the filling completely and pinch edges to seal.
12. Turn the mooncake and put the seam side down onto a greased baking sheet. Repeat
the wrapping process for each portion of the dough and filling. Use a pastry brush to apply the egg wash to each mooncake. Sprinkle sesame seeds on top.
13. Preheat oven. Bake mooncakes at 200 degrees for around 30 minutes.

Tips:•
• If you don’t have an oven, you can use a  saucepan instead.
• The plastic wraps and wet  towel should always remain damp.
• The more times you knead the dough, the more crispy it will turn out to be.
• Refrigerating  the pork stuffing will make it easier to wrap.




 

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